Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — Poverty No Handicap. [ARTICLE]

Poverty No Handicap.

Dr. D. K. Pearsons, addressing the students of Drury College, Springfield, Mo., a few days ago, said among other things: “I am interested in young men who fight their way; I owe my strength and vigor to the fact that I began life poor." Thousands of successful, hale and hearty old men of this land bear similar testimony to the blessing of poverty in youth, and it is one of the many things Americans have to be thankful for that men like Dr. Pearsons, who began life poor, and who were compelled in youth to fight their way through the .world against apparently insurmountable obstacles, are not ashamed either of their humble origin or of the labor or the drudgery which tell to their lot.